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No duty to retreat : violence and values in American history and society /

No Duty to Retreat takes as its starting-point the increased popularity in American society of the old English common-law concept that a person under physical attack has the right to stand his ground, defend himself, and even kill his assailant in self-defence in certain circumstances. This doctrine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Richard Maxwell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:No Duty to Retreat takes as its starting-point the increased popularity in American society of the old English common-law concept that a person under physical attack has the right to stand his ground, defend himself, and even kill his assailant in self-defence in certain circumstances. This doctrine came to public awareness recently when Berhard Goetz took the law into his own hands when assaulted by four youths in a New York City subway train. There is a chapter on the American as gunfighter, another on a famous vigilante case in California in the 1870s, when farmers retaliated against the Southern Pacific Railroad trying to move them off their lands, and a long chapter discussing 'crime, law, and society in America since 1930', in which Brown shows that the crime surge since the 1950s has occurred with the emergence of the Post-Industrial Society, which has left many people alienated and looking for quick solutions.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (268 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-251) and index.
ISBN:9780198021438
0198021437
1280523387
9781280523380
1429407360
9781429407366
019028143X
9780190281434